BORN FAT​

BIG, FAT REVIEWS​

"ABSOLUTELY INSPIRATIONAL" + WATERBURY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

"Born Fat is the story of one woman's triumph over health obstacles, heartbreak and adversity."+ HARTFORD COURANT

"Born Fat gives Jacques Lamarre the opportunity to lambaste the corporate food giants as well as the drug companies for their greedy disregard for the health and safety of consumers. He does it with a wit and style that is topically relevant and resonates with almost everyone who sees this yummy play."+ EXAMINER.COM

"If you are one of the millions of people who consider DIET a despicable four-letter word, if you’ve lost and found again pounds of fat like your’e holding a yo-yo, if one of your New Year’s Resolutions every year (or every Monday), is to shed that unwanted adipose tissue, then I have the perfect inspirational play for you."+ MIDDLETOWN PRESS

"Ms. Woodall’s Elizabeth is superb, and you can’t help but root for the unlikely underdog of a woman who is irresistibly likable...On Saturday evening’s performance, Ms. Petruccione was in the house, and before Ms. Woodall took a bow, she brought the real-life Elizabeth on the stage. It was a truly unique moment that encapsulated why theater is so powerful: It’s not larger than life, but life itself, and in the case of Born Fat, there is plenty of it to go around." + PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE

"FUNNY, TRAGIC, AND INSPIRING! ​As one listens to Woodall relate Petruccione’s story in the amiable, informal style that one finds in the Losing Weight with Elizabeth videos, one is unprepared for both the level of sharing that will be encountered and the shocking twists and turns that Petruccione’s life will take. From her reminiscences of her rather brutal, rejecting and unsympathetic mother to Petruccione’s journey through four marriages (the final one took), from her myriad cycles of gaining weight and losing weight and putting it all back on again to the personal tragedies she has had to endure, there’s quite a story to tell and Woodall acquits herself persuasively. Despite the serious nature of Petruccione’s internal battles with her weight and her complicated interpersonal relationships, Born Fat is, most of all, quite funny. It could easily be classified as a biographical comedy since it captures the good nature and outlook that has enabled Petruccione to develop a method that has enabled her to conquer her weight issues and decide to become an entrepreneur with a dedicated following. As Lamarre’s adaptation reveals, Petruccione is able to now laugh at many of the decisions she made in her younger days while still be deadly honest about the various bumps in her road."+HARTFORDEXAMINER.COM